Appearing in 1998 as an angry band of Scottish punks with Roddy Woomble of Carnoustie leading the band, Idlewild eventually achieved commercial recognition by refining their taste for large-scale guitar rock, and combining it with an apparently unknown gift for melody and tenderness. 1998's Captain was their debut release, a mini-album of chaotic punk, which, while achieving a significant fanbase among British teenagers, demonstrated little of the facets that would mark them out as such talented indie-rockers. Some of those were seen on that year's full-length, "Hope Is Important". Carrying a more subdued, top 20 hit single "When I Argue I See Shapes", Idlewild started to make commercial and critical inroads, something cemented by the top 40 success of follow-up, "I'm A Message". 2000's "100 Broken Windows" took this indie-punk sound and refined it, ballads like album closer "The Bronze Medal" were already a million miles from the nihilism and chaos of early tracks such as "Self Healer".
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Purple Sky, sky, sky
I am the night and this is your soul and,
Purple in the sky, in the sky, in the sky,
I am the night and this is your soul and,
Purple lover, the lovers go out,
Tonight in the night and this is your soul and,
In the night I smack my smack my,
I am the night and this is your soul and,
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I want you faster,
I want you everyday,
I want you faster,
I want you faster and I'm going faster,
(There is a light there is a light and I approach the light,
cos I see the light and I know one day when the light comes I will)
Purple in the sky in the sky,
arghhh arghhh arghhh this is your soul and,
Purple, Purple is the colour of,
This is your soul and,
Purple in the sky in the sky in the sky,
I am the night and this is your soul and,
Purple in the lover in the lover and the sad boy,
I am the night and this is your soul and,
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(There is the light there is the light there is the light)
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